Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne
Education is the process of learning more and more about less and less until one knows everything about nothing and is entitled to call oneself 'Doctor'.
Anonymous
Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan J. Perlis
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head.
Charles M Strauss
Never memorize what you can look up in books.
Albert Einstein
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous